this is the part where the crowd begins to chant, usa, but the thing is, we ain't no more and ain't been for some time. we can't even do basic plumbing;

 

T.S. Eliot wrote “…This is the way the world ends[,] Not with a bang but a whimper.”  We expect a sound to accompany any collapse, an ending, a grand finale – but little did we know that the sound of end the US military superpower would be the sound of a weak flush.

Shockingly, or predictably, or even shockingly predictably, we discover there is a terrible toilet problem on the USS Gerald R. Ford.  This carrier is the newest and most expensive warship ever built, at $13 Billion 2017 dollars, $17 Billion in today’s fiat. Among its many innovations, a vacuum-sewage system was adopted from the cruise ship industry, with pipes too narrow to accomplish their military mission.

 The USS Gerald Ford recently finished a strenuous, if imaginary, narcoterror operation in the Caribbean, and at this moment, is in the Mediterranean Sea attempting to join the massive US sea and air forces buildup vis a via Iran.  Israel wants to decapitate Iran, and Washington want to please Israel despite the political and strategic risk to Trump’s legacy, and desire to avoid a third, fourth and fifth impeachment in 2027.  American blood and resources will be Iranian targets if Trump or Netanyahu start shooting off more than just their gum flappers.

The Ford missed its scheduled R and R in Norfolk, and with it, the needed repairs to the sewage system, among other routine and planned maintenance.

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